In-home care, also known as home care, is best for seniors who need
assistance in their own home. Home-care workers provide non-medical care to clients by visiting them at their
place of residency where assistance with daily activities, such as eating, bathing and medication reminders,
is offered. These trained home care workers also provide companionship for seniors.
It is their duty to ensure the home environment is safe for their senior clients.

What is Alzheimer’s Care?

The facilities offer care that fosters residents' individual skills and interests in an environment that helps to diminish confusion and agitation. Specialty services are provided in a secure environment, such as activity programs designed to include reality orientation classes and specially trained professional staff skilled in handling the behavior associated with memory impairments. Many facilities that specializein Alzheimer's or related dementia disorders have building design features that assist with the problems associated with this disease: color-coded hallways, visual cues, and secure wandering paths for additional security... Read more

Senior Care Data Points

What is the percentage of the U.S. population of adult children in their 40s and 50s, are taking care as well as financially supporting their children and their adult parents?

Nearly half (47%) of adults in their 40s and 50s have a parent age 65 or older and are either raising a young child or financially supporting a grown child (age 18 or older). And about one-in-seven middle-aged adults (15%) is providing financial support to both an aging parent and a child.

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